Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-04-15
State News.
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gay and ran few hours to test machinerv
Everything ran smoothly. Next MONDAY tbe
management propose to start for iusiness
having already orders to fill. The stock'
hoioefs are sanguine and it is hoped Names
new enterprise will be success.
ARoosrook.
The selectmen of Caribou, have purchased
tne nne farm of E. D. Stiles for a poor farm
rice paid 80 700. This farm contains 100
acres OF land, and the buildings, consisting
oI mouse, two large barns, and gransry, are
IN good order. The trade is considered an
aovantageous one for the town-Republfean
Inc Aroostook county traders are all tax.
ing PROVINCIAL Bank bills a. a discount of
from nve to fifteen per cent. They intend
10 oriVe them wholly out of circulation in the
county and are gradually doing so.
CUMBERLAND.
The Argus says that it is proposed to con-
vert the ballroom and bowling alley, former.
~ connected with the Ottawa Hotel, Cu.h.
ing Island. into q restaurant for this summer
lor the cottagers. The occupants of the cor.
tages already built, with those of the seven
new ones now building will number so or u.
capt Maxwell of Peaks Island, has the con
tract 1or drilling the artesian wells on Cush
ing Island, and has commenced work on
one adjoining the Thaxter cottage. The
steamers of the Star line commence running
to Peaks and Cushing's islands this week
The Odd Fellows of Camden have fitted IN
one OF the most elegant and costly halls
owned by the order in the State.
Since last hsying time Minot Tolman of
East Warren, has threshed by horse power.
over oOOO bushels of grain and burned in q,
r Borgess. old fashioned kilns at West
camden, over 5000 barrels of Mount Pleas
ant lime, and has hauled the same to and
shipped 1t from Capt O. P. Shepherds
wharf, at Rockport.
AT Camden crew of men are at work
laying the foundation of the new mill that
the Knox Wooden Co, are soon to build
The Old mill was shut down Saturday 40 thar
the men could work in the river.
Warren will probably be taken into the
telegraph circuit. Agent Keyes was there
Friday confering with those interested, and
1t Is expected that a line or loop will be built
In the early spring 1t is also thought that
the railroad company will have an Office at
the station, In which case the town viii be
well provided with good telegraph facilities
Three eundred tons of steel rails for the
Knox Lincoln have been discharged al the
railroad wharf at Rockland, by schooner,
Seth w. Smith
Vlnalhaven correspondent of the Courier
Gazette writes: A special town meeting was
held In the town hall Saturday afternoon to
hear the report of a committee on thu fire
engine and to consider the advisabilitv of
purchasing one. Much Interest has been
fet IN the matter, since last meeting, aud
although manv were known to be against the
project. it was believed that the town would
certainly have an engine, but the farmers
were united against it and they came in solid
phaanxes from every house and hamlet and
defeated the question The vote stood l04
for the engine and l25 against. The eloquence
of the best and wisest citizens was all in valn
and thus the town is left to depend on good
luck, and at the mercy of conflagration which
may break out ut any time and sweep the
best part OF the village from existence.
PENoBsCor.
correspondent to the Wing reports Oro-
no and Bangor parties met at the office Of A.
G. Ring, Esq, in Orono, the first of the eek
and formed a company for the manufacture
of wig~am slippers They have secured the
ground floor of the large brick block at the
foot of Mill street. One of the firm is now in
Boston buving a full line of improved ma
chinery. Tney expect to be ready for bust
ness by the middle of next week. An exper
fenced workman, Mr.. Cosmey of Bangor, is
to be foreman They expect 10 give employ
ment to about fifty hands on the start. They
have had large orders from Chicago and
Minneapolis.
PIsCATAQUIs.
The Foxcrott Foundry Company are b.
ing favored by the Canadian Pacific people.
They have just received an order for Is rail
road dump carts to be used in construction
work. This is very good contract
Some 800 tons of freight for the Canadian
Pacific Railway are being hauled from Abbot
station through Willimantic to Lake Onaway
where the line of the road has been located.
This gives employment to large number OF
men and teams, and the slow disa. pearsnce
of the snow aids matters very greatly.
SAGADAHoC.
The Times reports.-A south end man
picked up in the river few days since, the
figure head of a vessel which is supposed at
one time to have adorned the bow of yes
sci built one hundred years ago. The figure
head is made of maple, is about five feet in
length and represents the bust of a man. 1t
is said that it came from a vessel supposed to
have sunk in the river many years sgo. a.
the model and make of the figure head is of
the style of that time. When discovered
floating in the river, the figure head was
frozen to the under side of a cake of ice ane.
it is thought it was hauled from the wreck by
the ice.
boy of the name McRae, employed at
the ropewa,k Of J. T. Donnell & Co. of Bath
had his right arm injured "Wednesday by
coming into contact with the cog wheels of a
machine. The sleeve of his shirt caught and
drew the arm sidewise into the cogs. The
flesh above and below the elbow was badly
lacerated, but no bones were broken. The
elbow joint escaped injury.
YORK.
Charles Day of Days mill in Kennebunk-
port was the victim, yesterday morning, of a
severe and painful accident. He en-
ploved at his mil in saving out shingles,
when his right hand was caught in the circu-
lar saw of the machine snd msnged in q
horrible manner. The back tendons Of the
fingers were severed and the bones nearly
sawed it two, while the fish vas torn and
shredded all out of any sembance to hand.
The members of the Methodist church at
Saco. over which MIR. Pendexter, the clergy
man who preferred charges of grave nature
against the High School, Is pastor. have come
to his assistance in series of statements
which denv in word, some If the assertions
attributed 10 him.
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